Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
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Gill's Exposition
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?.... The psalmist corrects himself, as being too much depressed in spirit with his present circumstances, and expostulates with himself; adding,
and why art thou…
Barnes' Notes
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? - Margin, bowed down. The Hebrew word means to bow down, to incline oneself; then, usually, to prostrate oneself as in public worship; and then, to sink down under…
Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase:…
Cambridge Bible
In this refrain the truer -self" chides the weaker -soul," the emotional nature, for its despondency and complaint.
cast down Bowed down as a mourner. Cp. Psa 35:14; Psa 38:6.
The resemblance of our…
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